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entreation the Council to deliberate
maturely
ippeesid
an
merey
on the case;
and having implied wish that
might also be extended
to the male Prisoner in the
eventy of a doubt being entertaund by the Council, withdrew from the Room.
M Hillier as Jurin Member bring requested by the Lient. Governo to declare his
pinion
and advice, with resrect to the male Prisoner, said, that upon
a
careful consideration of the Evidence on the Table and the remarks of the Acting Chief
Justice, he would propos???
that the sentence
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Death
passed upon both Risoners should be commuted to that of Transportation for Life. He was led to this conclusion principally by the facts that the body had not been certainly found and identified; that the evidence against
the defendant
(that of accomplices) was little supported by conronative testimony, that the Iudze
had not said, though the question that he was
was put to him,
perfectly satisfied
with the Verdict of the Jury,
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